Headlight for automobiles, &amp;c.



PATENTED'PEB. 25, 1908.

W. D. FORBES.

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HEADLIGHT Fon AUTOMOBILES', ac.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 190s.

Application filed May 18 1907. Serial No. 374.418.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM D. FORBES, a citizen of the United States of' America, and

- residing at Morristown, lcounty of Essex, and

simple, inexpensive, easily applied and efficient device for effecting this automatic control.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section showing an embodiment of my invention 5 Fig. 2 is a plan view of a part Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a part of the Ward end of 4an automobile showing the application of my invention.

In this Fig. 3, A illustrates one of the front steerable wheels of an automobile and C- is one .of the lamps carried' by a bracket B, which may be mounted on any suitable part of the frame or chassis F.

At D I have indicated the usual connectin rodextendin across the front of the car an connecting tIie knuckle E of one steering wheel A with the like knuckle of the corre-y sponding wheel on the other side of the car.

As usual the lamp C is suitably mounted in the forked upper end G1 of a supporting stem G, carried by the bracket B, but insteadv of being firmly secured to the bracket, it is mounted so as to turn therein. To the bracket thus swiveled I connect a spring which tends to turn the headlight in one direction while a cord or the like iiexible connection to the steering Wheel connections will tend-to retain or move it in the other direction.

As shown in Fig. 1, the tubular part B1 of 1 the bracket is made sufficiently large to accommodate in addition to the straight portion of the stem G, a spiral spring S' aroundthat stem. The lower end of' the spring is secured in a ring R, which is suitably secured to the lower end ofthe tubular fpart B1 of the bracket, while the upper end o the spring is fastened in a coller g which bears on the top of the tubular part B1 and is fastened to the stem G. I prefer to fasten this collar to t-hestem G adjustably, as by providing ratchet teeth 5 on the stern to be enga ed by a spring pressed latch C1 carried by t e coller. By this means the tension of the spring may be adjusted. l

On the lower end of the stem Gis secured a bevel ear 7 gearing into a bevel pinion 8 on a s mle 9, on which is wound a cord 10, one en of the cord being secured to the spindle. The cord 10 from the spindle 9 may be led over a guide'pulley 11 carried by a bracket 12, which is fitted tothe -underside of the ring R in any suitable way, and thence the cor leads to and is connected with any suitable moving part in connection with the steering wheels. In Fig. 3I have shown the cord connected at d `(adjustabl by preference) to therod D connectin t e' knuckle of one wheel A with the knuc e of the other wheel. Thusthe movement of the rod D in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3 when they Wheels of the car are steered to the drivers right will [cause the headlight to be -correspondingly turned a ainst the action of the spring S, Fig. 1. his spring S will cause a movement of the lamp inthe opposite direction when the Wheels of the car are steered back again 'towards the left.

In this specification I use the term cord. vin al sufliciently wide sense to embrace also equivalent flexible as a chain or wire.

I claim as my invention:

' 1. The combination of a vehicle4 having steering wheels and a swiveled headlight with connecting means such a spring tending to turn the headlight in vone directionv and a flexible connection to the steerin wheels in the op osite directioni 2. T e combination o .a vehicle having steering wheels and a headlight with a swiveled supporting stem for the latter, spiral spring around the stem and tending to turn i t e headlight in one direction vand a flexible connection to the steering Wheels in the opposite direction.

3. The combination of a vehicle having 'a v 'e 580,299

A e'eering Wlleelsx and a headlvight with e swiv- 11eme to this specification, the presence of led supporting'stem for the latter, a spiral two subserbingwitnesses.

ring tending to turn Athe headlight iu one 1 f drection, e spindle having a cord' Wound on WILLIAM D FORBEb' 'it and con'neeted-to the steering Wheels and Witnesses:

gearing betweensaid stem and spindle. WALTER ABBE,

v 'In testimony whereof I have signedemyll l .i WILLIAM ABBE. 

